La más venenosa: esta parte del pollo no debe comerse nunca.
El pollo es un plato indispensable en nuestra mesa. Es barato y hay muchas formas de prepararlo. Pero, ¿sabías qué partes del pollo están llenas de parásitos? Si se comen en exceso, pueden ser perjudiciales para el organismo. Pero mucha…
Prepare for doom: AI is already taking control of your money
In the spring of 2020, as Covid-19 swept across the world, artificial intelligence (AI) systems working for one of the world’s biggest credit scoring companies noticed an unexpected surge in online shopping. The AI bots concluded that this could only…
Elon Musk tells Rishi Sunak AI will put an end to work
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has predicted that artificial intelligence will eventually mean that no one will have to work. He was speaking to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during an unusual “in conversation” event at the end of this week’s summit…
#DeepNostalgia – how animating portraits with AI is both bolstering and undoing historic painted lies
The AI family history app MyHeritage allows users to animate photographs from the past. Run a document through the app and it will seemingly bring it to life, making the subject’s eyes blink and look around. Many have been turning…
How I found potential lost works of the great British painter William Hogarth – new research
On the banks of River Kennett, Wiltshire, sits an Elizabethan country house. You might know Littlecote if you enjoy fly fishing or, if you’re interested in civil war re-enactments – it possesses a unique Cromwellian Chapel and an outstanding Roundhead…
Four tips to make the most of your next gallery visit
Going to a gallery can be an escape from the everyday – an opportunity to fall into a moment of reverie in front of an artwork that you know cannot be replicated in print or online. Then there are the…
London Design Biennale – how a forest in a courtyard is challenging the city’s Enlightenment principles
The art director of this year’s London Design Biennale, Es Devlin, intends to challenge archaic design principles and highlight current climate concerns by planting 400 trees in the heart of the capital. The artist’s installation of “The Forest for Change”,…
What it reveals about the challenges of sculpting famous people
The excitement around the uncloaking of a statue of Diana, Princess of Wales, at Kensington Palace on what would have been her 60th birthday seemed to spread around the world last week. But it wasn’t just the prospect of the…
How could an Italian gallery sue over use of its public domain art?
Boticelli’s The Birth of Venus resides within the Uffizi gallery in Florence, Italy. It is believed to have been painted in the mid-1480s and as such is classed as being in the public domain, free from copyright around the world….
How a volcano and flaming red sunsets led an amateur scientist in Hawaii to discover jet streams
On the evening of Sept. 5, 1883, people in Honolulu witnessed a spectacular sunset followed by a period of extended twilight described as a “singular lurid after sunset glow.” There were no signs of anything else out of the ordinary,…
